Vietnam Parliament to Pass 4 Draft Laws in 2nd Session in October

Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly (NA) will start its 2nd session in October, focusing on lawmaking affairs, state media has reported. The 494-member parliament will adopt four draft laws and give opinions on 14 others while the Standing Committee will work on four draft ordinances, newspapers said without naming them. The parliament plans to work on 29 draft laws in 2017, said Nguyen Khac Dinh, head of the parliament’s Law Committee. NA Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu said that 2016 is the first year to implement the Law on the Promulgation of Legal Documents 2015. He asked NA agencies and deputies to continue discussions and contribute their ideas to increasing the quality and efficiency of the legislature’s law making and to completing the law and ordinance making programs for the last months of 2016 and 2017. To better law building in the time ahead, Mr. Dinh requested the government, the Supreme People’s Court, the Supreme People’s Procuracy, and relevant agencies to implement well the regulations of the Law on the Promulgation of Legal Documents, and to soon make a plan to carry out a resolution on the adjustment of the law and ordinance making programs for 2016 and 2017. (Dai Bieu Nhan Dan – People’s Deputies Aug 15, Lao Dong – Labor Aug 15)